Re: Cleanup in a bash script

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 9/28/24 15:53, Tim Woodall wrote:
> Is there a way in bash to guarantee that a trap gets called for cleanup
> in a script?
>
> I have a script that works perfectly normally and cleans up after
> itself, even if it goes wrong.
>
> However on trying to debug something else, I wanted to run it like this:
>
> ./script |& tee log
>
> and now it doesn't clean up if I <ctrl c> it.
>
> Is there a way in bash to guarantee (modulo uncatchable signals) that a
> cleanup routine gets called?

You need to trap the CTRL C and execute that same clean up routine.
As I don't use Bash you might want to look online for some insperation.

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John Doe